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Ellis Paints Magnificently Landscape Of the Mexicos; Other Exhibits at Art Museum by Bakos, Rolilands, StocktonK,|C*W* 0f MVett ne*'!?«i£ ?*• y *™r-d? aMd wanner of palnt-,hf JwJv 15 to A us.■*** 11 t»*e An Museum. Threefo,owed ^ sPrln«aiSetS.S? MeXlC0 ,,,d h8Vlt; bfW EL-1 « ,a2lt;fb by local art fol-w i’*' ‘CtI 8fe J-ndscapes of New Mexico. ^Ellta [ms.-sw that he couldn’t find wer.is lor me impression the Mexican country tat nlt*j« upon him. To him, It wB1 ai) nol qiUle r„, llke x s.ojiboo; jell lit? that exists only In the nei.d. tlib iierdi no words Tor his Mexican impressions, how* cvsr; he ms pair.t „nd brush and toilers lrMumh lheAe Impressions,.Tbe •» a 'lew of cholula. the City oi 3Gi churches, one glimpsed on a-height above a tree-lined road.Lln.il i ahade, thebJlWii* gleaming forth in sun. The landscape with the ruin of an olrt church was sketched along the road 0 Taxro; p;ro ce Orlxabx on the uop.CAl road bct»fen Mexico CHy and Vera Cruz there an altitude of 8,000 feet is reached.From New Mexfcr there Is Cham Peak, win, it, t,Ml feeling of the high mountain country. Mountain Landscape. New i,„1co Landscape, and storm, h, au there Is the purer cf clouds »s they mam over massed mountains, often white like the snow oil the pra*,. stoim, the centra] painting In the alcove. U heavy with a * unset rain, caught at the exact moment when a shaft of sun tircHxs through the cloud-filled sky. ft Is a iired golden light, like tire late go.d o’ harvest season, and it fo.ts upon a RCrjy rancher whose horse Is plodding slowly forward. The mcod of men rs. elements Is eloquently expressed, the figure being so small against the wild sweep of nature.The contrast of Elite’ w-orjr to that of Jtaef Bikos, Paul and Caroline speare Holland Is particularly pointed as one stands mid-way In the gallery and looks around. Bakos and the R oh lands are showing In the three alcoves on the right and there Is a certain affinity In their work. El!Is might have been living on a different planet, so entirety different Is his approach to painting.The Bakos show contains landscapes and stlfl lire. Moving to thl,w.M.Ve, aVlt;4' vlewln* ,h« Em* «-hlblf. Is hke walking,Into a spring Harden alter a trip to the depths of the Carlsbad Caverns. There is the heavenly blue of Morning on the Homestead. mountains viewed broadly Ibrough a bright window pane; there are peonies and poln-settlas; Spring In New Mexico and a Canyon, lliercS lots of white ta well », the lovely colors, and always lie expertiie» of pattern for which this uno of the cinco. Plntores is noted.Caroline Speare Rchland paints with * graceful feminine hand Bnd an appreciative sense of character. Tr.exe are some of l-.er studies from the Carolines. Including. « fine drawing of a woman cnlton-plcker. There's a lovely landscape with a group of cherubic figures centered, certainly a scene from a Southern plantation. There are contracting and amusing city characters of a rougher type.Her 1 unhand, Paul Rohland. is showing all flower .studies with the exception of two landscapes. Colo: Is In the lighter (ones, often pink, not only for flowers, but for the houses and mountain* of New Mexico. It is a pleasing show and one In which all Sanla Fe gardeners Rill icvcl, for here Is a man who H'es flowers as they do.Pansy Stockton's “sun paintings-’ round out the show and the exhibit Is Indeed her best In a series through the yean. He: work never falls 10 fascinate the gaUery-gorrs who continually express their amazement that pictures can t*' made with the alts of flora that she colled? and dries for the pur pose.
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